Improvement in bird-cages



if G. SEYFANG.

BIRD-CAGE.

No.174.64;4. Patented Mar*eh14,1876.

UNHEE SrE'rEs PATENT FEOE.

GEORGE sEYFANG, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BIRD-CAGES.

Speeliication forming part of Letters Patent No. [74.644, dated March14, 1876 application filed May 15, 1R75.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, GEORGE SEYFANG, of Buffalo, in the'county of Erie andState of New Yorlqhave inventedr certain new and useful Improvementsinirdages; land I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

' clear, and exact description thereof, having reference to theaccompanying sheet of drawings, in Whieh- Figure 1 is a longitudinalelevation of a bird-cage embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section of one of the horizontal bands. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of the food-cup. Fig. 4 is atop, and Fig. 5 a bottom, view ofthe same.

Like letters of reference indicate similar parts in the various figures.

The rst part of my present invention relates to the fastening of thevertical lilling- Wires Within the horizontal bands, and the second partrelates to the feed-cups and their nature and particulars ofconstruction, which will be first described and then pointed out in lthe claims.

A is the body of a bird-cage, made in the usual forms, of brass or otherWire.' B are the horizontal bands, and C the vertical filling- Wires.These horizontal bands B are made of Wire, suitably provided withperforations U' to receive the vertical filling-Wires C, fastened Withinthe said bands B Without solder by providing these bands withindeutations D, produced therein by suitable means, so as to compressthe metal around the perforations, and thus cause the same to impingeupon the lling-wires sufficiently to hold them in their proper position.y y

A result similar to that described has, to some extent, been produced bypassing the bands between rollers after the insertion of thefilling-Wires, and to swage them so as to cause the perforations toelongate, andv thus impinge upon the filling-Wires to hold them in theirplace. This mode of fastening the Wires is faulty in that theperforations become oblong, and thus cause open spaces on each side ofthe lling-Wires, Where acid will be retained after the cages are dipped,and Where vermin and other impurities Will accumulate that are injuriousto the bird. These open spaces` cannot Well be closed by any amount ofrolll ing the bands, as this operation is limited, to

a great extent, by the stretchingof the said bands, and, if carried onto excess, will seriously aii'ect their strength, because the band willstretch most around the perforations and harden the metal so much as tocause it to break, while the unequal expansion of the different bandswill distigure the cage. These obstacles I have overcome by stamping, or

otherwise producing, in the bandsafter the insertion of thefilling-Wires, indentations D on each side of and parallel With the saidtilling-wires.

thus causelthe perforations to close up all around and impinge upon thesaid filling-Wires without leaving open spaces, 811e., and Withoutai'ecting the strength of the bands, since the transverse sectionthrough the indentations is still greater then than through theperforated part of the bands.

E is the feed cup of my cage. It is made of glass or porcelain, and hasin its upper edge notches or in-dentations E', by means of which itengages with a locking-bar, F. The bottom of this feed-cup E is providedwith a circular projection, Gr, having also notches I, which engage withthe .band B. One-half of the circumference of the food-cup is plain, andthe other, that outside of the cage, corrugated,

longitudinally, and the cup is inserted into the cage by raising the barF, which slides upon two of the lilling-Wires C, and between the bands BB', one of which being a section only of sufficient length to retain thebroken ends of the filling-wires C, removed to produce the opening forthe food-cup, suflieiently to pass `thecup into the open space providedfor that purpose, and by it is held in proper position by the notches Eand I, in conjunction With the band B and locking-bar F. In order toprevent the food-cup from being pushed entirely into the cage, I providethe same with projections'X, which Will engage with indentations K inthe lling-wires U, and thus insure the proper location of the feedeup.lhese feed-cups, being an article of commerce, are of a size smallerthan the space providedA for them-the distance between a certain numberof illing-Wires-and, in order to enable me to use these feed-cups, Iprovide the respective These indentations will condense the metalsurrounding the filling-Wires,*andl filling-wires ,with projections K,which, engaging with the longitudinal corrugations or projection X, onthe food-cup, will prevent its being pushed into the cage. If food-cupsare made of a size sufeiently large, or the projections X, providedthereon, of a sucient length, I am enabled to discard the projections Kin the said filling-wires. The retaining-bar F serves the double purposeof holding the feed-cups in proper positionV and of closing the openingtherefor after the removal of the said feed-cups.

Having thus fully described my invention, in order to enable othersskilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, Idesire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. Thebands B B', provided with the perfo- GEO. SEYFANG. Witnesses:

MICHAEL J. STARK, GEO. J. MUNSGHAUER.

